CELLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cellar mean? 

• CELLAR (noun)
  The noun CELLAR has 3 senses:

1. the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage

2. an excavation where root vegetables are stored

3. storage space where wines are stored

  Familiarity information: CELLAR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELLAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

basement; cellar

Hypernyms ("cellar" is a kind of...):

floor; level; storey; story (a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cellar"):

cellarage (a storage area in a cellar)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An excavation where root vegetables are stored

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cellar; root cellar

Hypernyms ("cellar" is a kind of...):

excavation (a hole in the ground made by excavating)

storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Storage space where wines are stored

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cellar; wine cellar

Hypernyms ("cellar" is a kind of...):

storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)

 Context examples 

Of course we searched the house from cellar to garret, but there was no trace of him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upstairs they waited for the boy, but as he still did not return, the man said to the woman: “Just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie is!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“That is Mrs. Toller in the cellar,” said she.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Quick, Dorothy!" she screamed. "Run for the cellar!"

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A neoplasm or the cellar region presumed to be derived from Rathke's pouch epithelial cells.

(Mouse Craniopharyngioma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

With this stake came a heavy hammer, such as in households is used in the coal-cellar for breaking the lumps.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I suppose this unfortunate fowl was born and brought up in a cellar, said my aunt, and never took the air except on a hackney coach-stand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A more civilized or more effeminate generation, however, had refused to be pent up in such a cellar, and the hall with its neighboring chambers had been added for their accommodation.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our friend upon the sofa has assured me that it is from Franz Josef’s special cellar at the Schoenbrunn Palace.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jo liked this, and after an energetic rummage from garret to cellar, subsided on the sofa to nurse her cold with arsenicum and books.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)